Western Ukrainian Russophiles

The Russophile movement in Galicia was a cultural trend among the Ruthenians ( Eastern Slavs ) of the Habsburg monarchy. The representatives of the Russophile propagated the membership of the Ruthenians to the Russian people, and emphasized the common cultural links with the Russians that exist since the time of Kievan Rus. The objectives of the Russophile movement included the maintenance of the East Slavic identity and the return to Russian Orthodox Christianity instead of the imposed in the Union of Brest connection to Catholicism.

The Austro -Hungarian authorities considered the Russophile movement in Galicia, Transcarpathia and Bukovina with great suspicion and supported than counterbalanced by the ukrainophile movement among the Ruthenians. This advocated the greatest possible distance from the Russians (which is not least reflected in the newly elected ethnonym ) and was the Habsburg Monarchy very loyal. The ukrainophile motion was also supported by the Polish circles.

Among the leading personalities of the Russophile movement included:

  • Anton Beskid (1855-1933) - legal scholar and politician
  • Andrij Brody (1895-1946) - journalist and politician
  • Bohdan Didyzkyj (1827-1909) - writer and journalist
  • Dobrjanský Adolf (1817-1901) - Politician and writer
  • Duchnowytsch Alexander (1803-1865) - poet, writer and priest
  • Ivan Franko (1856-1916) - Ukrainian writer and socialist in his youth followers of the Russophile movement
  • Jakiw Holowazkyj (1814-1888) - poet, historian, journalist, rector of the Lviv University
  • Ignatius Hudyma (1882-1944) - Orthodox priest
  • Jossyp Losynskyj (1807-1889) - ethnographer, priests, writers
  • Ivan Naumowytsch (1826-1891) - writer and publisher, journalist, unierter (later Russian Orthodox ) priest
  • Anthony Petrushevich (1821-1913) - historian, linguist, ethnographer
  • Isidor Scharanewytsch (1829-1901) - historian and archaeologist
  • Denys Subryzkyj (1777-1862) - historian and ethnographer
  • Alexis Toth (1853-1909) - Russian Orthodox missionary in the United States of Ruthenian origin
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